Blockchain, bitcoin’s biggest wallet provider, to allow people to buy and sell from the wallet

Blockchain is bitcoin’s biggest wallet provider, it merely employs 25 people, and it has over 50% market share right now. After the US elections, a lot of people decided to use bitcoin as a hedge against economic instability, which made its price surge, making the wallet provider hit records numbers in activity and transactions. In an interview, co-founder and CEO of Blockchain wallet revealed that the company, in a partnership with Coinify, wants to launch a new feature that will allow users to buy and sell bitcoin from their wallets. The expect result of this new feature, allied with Blockchain’s prominence in the market, may make bitcoin’s value go through the roof.

ChangeTip, a bitcoin tipping service, shut down after a few employees got hired by Airbnb

ChangeTip is a bitcoin tipping service that aimed to bring bitcoins tips to most popular web platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and Twitch. The company managed to raise $3.5 million in a seed funding round, but a few months ago its core development team was hired by Airbnb. Since then, the platform attempted to find a solution for the service but claim they failed to do so and, as such, the only reaming option is to shut down. The service will remain online for a while longer so users can withdraw their funds, and withdrawals will be processed once every 24 hours. Users can also donate their money to charity when they close their account.

World affairs:

Bank of Japan: Blockchain may create tax issues and change the way banks conduct monetary policy.

Hiroshi Nakaso, Bank of Japan’s deputy governor, spoke at the University of Tokyo about FinTech this week, and in his speech he talked a lot about the benefits and risks of the digitalization of financial services. According to his statements, if FinTech stimulates economic transactions through the internet, then it would become more and more difficult to pinpoint the locations in which transactions actually take place. This would lead to issued revolving around regulation and taxation. He then closed his speech calling for greater collaboration in FinTech.

Dubai to discuss bitcoin regulation in a one-day conference

The Supreme Legislation Committee in the Emirate of Dubai, and the Dubai Electronic Security Center, are to hold a one-day conference in which bitcoin regulation will be discussed. The conference will be called “Virtual Currencies, Fact and Law” and will be held on the 20th of November. Government officials and national jurisdictions are expected to attend. According to CoinDesk, the Secretary General of the Supreme Legislation Committee said the move is part of their efforts to build legal knowledge and strengthen their legal system. Dubai has, in the past, researched FinTech and possible usage for blockchain technology.

Financial:

Bitcoin at $750, nearly beating its 2016 record

A lot of things happened in favor of bitcoin this week. While the Chinese Yuan devalued and Donald Trump became the 45th president of the United States, bitcoin came a baby step closer to mainstream adoption, while being used to hedge against economic instability. This means in one hour, the price went up nearly $30, and overall managed to hit $750 at the time of publishing.

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India, one bitcoin was worth over $900, as the country banned two of the biggest fiat banknotes in the country, rendering a lot of the country’s physical cash completely obsolete, in an attempt to fight corruption, money laundering and terrorism.

ARE THEY FUCK TRYING TO STOP MONEY LAUNDERING,- they want a cashless society with all transactions going digital so it is all logged, not just India, the whole planet

CASH IS KING, the government knows this, and so do the rag heads in India. its deeper than money laundering and terrorists, these are the excuses the use. They want to ban paper currency eventually

The war on cash really began to escalate in February when The European Central Bank said it was considering withdrawing 500-euro notes because of an “increased conviction in world public opinion” such high-value notes are used for criminal purposes.

WORLD OPINION, when you hear this phrase they do not mean the normal people they mean the world government ‘world people’ ‘global citizen’ – these fuckers are tearing down borders and destroying country by country culture by culture until we all become ONE society